Starting the decade with a big-bang, perhaps you are one of the curious individuals who are starting to venture to IM (Internet Marketing) as another source of residual income. In your search for finding the fastest and easiest way to earn online, you came across to PPC/CPC/CPM ad networks. You as a publisher, may have drop by to one of the most profitable yet most controversial ads by Google, the Google Adsense.
Usually, if this is your first-time, you are certainly not happy with your earnings with adsense. Obviously, you want to find additional ways to earn as a publisher — An ad network that will not violate adsense TOS or other ad network’s TOS, will blend perfectly on your page and of course! can give you the highest earnings as possible (greed is good of course!)
Folks, the answer is all here, introducing Infolinks!
Quick-pitch:
Infolinks is an ad-network which presents the next generation of in-text advertising that promises the highest revenue shares possible.
Our take? We have been using infolinks for 6 months now, and so far … let’s just say we are quite satisfied with its performance. We are not a fan of flaunting your earnings to the public or boasting some fat checks and providing some ‘screenies’. But as for the question if infolinks really does the job of providing another source of income for your website? We say, hell yes!
Digging it Deeper.
In-Text advertising is one of the coolest innovations that has been developed in terms of (contextual advertising) and we’re so thankful for it. In-Text advertising is a process wherein keywords from the content of your site will be matched to an advertiser and you will get paid if the visitor of your site clicks on that word. Genius idea, isn’t?
Let me explain it further: Example your site is all about health and your keyword is ‘medicine’, advertisers bid on that certain keyword and infolinks does all the synchronization for you to give the highest bid everytime your page loads. Once your reader/visitor clicks on the text-ads, they will be directed to the advertisers website, and earnings will start to flow. That’s how simple it is!
How to apply?
All you have to do is perform these simple steps: 1st fill-out the online application form, get the code, paste it into your website and voila! You’re done. If you want it more personalized and want to add more link-ads in your site, you can customize it on your personal dashboard – You can even change the color to blend the links seamlessly on your site.
Technical Details
Seriously? Adding the infolinks code is child’s play, once you’re logged into your dashboard and have set the tone of the ads, the code will be there and you simply need to copy and paste it on the theme of your website. No need to become a programming expert for this one, just copy paste the code on the footer of your site and we’re good to go. If you think it’s still complicated, Infolinks has a dedicated team to assist you when you want something changed or if you want to target infolinks on specific keywords related to your niche.
Requirements
What I love about Infolinks is that almost everyone can join. Just make sure you’re not selling something illegal or you’re not doing some smutty collection on your site.
If you are a newbie publisher, then you know how it is hard to find a trusted ad network that will not scam you and will accept your website eventhough your traffic is not yet high. Infolinks just solve all those problems for you.
Competitors
One of infolinks closest competitor is Kontera, I will not go on to the details much, but Infolinks has the competitve advantage over kontrea, why? Simply because Infolinks at a glance (on a reader’s perspective) is very easy to navigate and of course, to be clicked! On kontera, sometimes you have this ‘confusing’ search bar with different tabs that appear when no ads are possible at the moment, making you want to search for something, etc..
If there’s one thing that we know about how ads perform, it is all about simplicity. The less actions for readers, the better return of revenue.
On the other hand, infolinks always offers a simple drop-down box once you hover your mouse on the text-ads and all the interested readers have to do is to click on the ad.
I could go on with a lot of concrete reasons why you should choose infolinks but hey! Let’s leave that to other publisher’s preferences.
Customer Support
Response time of Infolinks’ support is impressive, the longest waiting time our company had waited for, is about 24 hours only. Usually we received reply on an earlier timeframe.
Payment
Payment is a breeze, infolinks follows a net-45 policy, meaning you will get your earnings every 45 days. In case you failed to reach the minimum quota of 100 USD, don’t worry, your earnings will be roll out the following month (next 45 days) until you finally reach it. You also have the option to withdraw via checks if you’re starting to hit the cash-cow already. Although for starters, the easiest way is paypal.
Hot Tip:
Just like other legit ad network, you need to submit a tax form for infolinks. Don’t worry it’s very easy, and if it just so happens that you get lost on the way, infolinks customer support is there 24/7 to give you some help. Just be sure to submit this one on time, to prevent stalling of the release of your earnings.
Any Complains?
Eventhough this service is as good as it may sounds, there will always be those natural caveats preventing you from earning that gift-horse. It will be wise to know this one first, before complaining why you’re not earning as much as you want it to be.
- Limited Traffic – I don’t know how many times this has been repeated on that ‘golden book of how to earn with your website’ that if you don’t have enough traffic or your traffic source falls onto these categories (Junk, Bot traffic, untargetted) then there’s a big chance that you won’t earn adequately. Sadly, without traffic, your website is synonymous to being useless.
- Targeted Keyword – At least, your keyword should somehow be related to the advertiser’s pool of keywords. Although, infolinks will select the most profitable keywords for each of your post, it would be lucrative if you stick onto your topic. You don’t want to create a topic about the king of pop and the content is about cars, don’t you?
- Too much ads – Saturation has never been a good thing for readers hence it’s best to test the threshold of the amount of ads that you can put on a certain page. Just enough ads to blend and not to make your readers feel sick on seeing too much ads. If you have a small 200-300 word article, it will be advantageous to put 3-4 infolinks only. If you write a long post, then blending 12 infolinks ads shouldn’t be a problem. Remember: The last thing that you would want to happen is to see your dear readers getting too dizzy reading underlined text-ads, cluttering your article, making them want to leave your website without even bothering to click on an advertisement.
- Advertiser fluctuation – Just like any advertising services, ecpm (estimated cost per mile) has a tendency to ‘dance’ and it depends on how profitable the keyword you have to gain the maximum earnings possible. What’s high today, may already be plummeting tomorrow.
If you think you have manage to comply with the above statement yet you feel you’re income is inadequate then that’s the time to send a message to infolinks’ customer support and they will reply to you very soon.
Bonus
As a part of infolinks morale-booster for publishers, they held a cool contest once every month — giving some fabolous prizes for the winners. The last time I check, the grand prize was worth 1,000 USD for making a creative video.
Pretty cool huh?
Wrap-up:
Still skeptical? I myself felt the same way too, when a dear friend who is also a website publisher introduced me to Infolinks. I have a lot of questions for her, about how it really works, how do I earn and how do I get paid and all those usual newbie questions. Well, she gave me some concise answers, but still, I find myself on a state of confusion, albeit the rule here is you won’t get all the answers you need, unless you try it and see it firsthand, and see how it really works.
Certainly, I got what I needed, and at this rate of income our website is receiving, I could not recommend any other in-text ad network aside from Infolinks. It works for me, I don’t see any reason why it should not work for you.
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great review and analysis on infolinks. :)
This review owns, thank you for the details
Congrats!!!…bro… panalo ka ng Nexus One!!
WOW! You have a complete and very concise Infolinks revie dude! No wonder you’ve just won yourself a new Google Nexus One mobile phone from Infolinks! CONGRATS!!
Clap! Clap? Clap! With this kind of review for infolinks you very well deserve the Google Nexus One. Congratulations!
Gongratulations on the Nexus One win – - I just saw the message board at Infolinks which led me to your site. Great job! I use infolinks as well and so far….. so GOOD~! :)